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Federal Building on San Francisco Street. At the edge of downtown, on the block southeast of the old Courthouse, is "the closest thing to a skyscraper that can be found in Flagstaff"; it is five stories tall but impedes on the aesthetic of the rest of the area. Built in the early 1960s, it
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